Archaeological Excavation at the Ferris dune Site (48CR310)

Brent A. Buenger

Archaeological Excavation at the Ferris dune Site (48CR310)

Year: 2014

Summary

Archaeological excavations at the Ferris Dune site (48CR310) yielded two buried cultural components. Component 1 dated to the Late Prehistoric Uinta phase (950 ± 30 years B.P.), and Component 2 dated to the Late Archaic Deadman Wash phase (1920 ± 30 years B.P.). Component 1 represents a relatively well preserved hunting camp where at least two bison were processed, while the cultural materials associated with Component 2 were appreciably more ephemeral and representative of a nondescript short term hunter-gatherer occupation. Each of the occupations suggests the site was occupied by small groups of highly mobile hunter-gatherers conducting basic subsistence activities within the context of a foothill/mountain ecozone, perhaps as the result of seasonally conditioned adaptive strategies employed within the broader context of hunter-gatherer lifeways within the Wyoming Basin.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Excavation at the Ferris dune Site (48CR310). Brent A. Buenger. The Wyoming Archaeologist. 58 (2): 29-50. 2014 ( tDAR id: 476503) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8476503